Michelle/Melbrigða

My mom has really been asking me a lot of questions lately about
unschooling. I know she is concerned about how the children will go to
college and "complete" their education. I braced myself this week to be on
the defensive and actually found my mom asking some really "I'm trying to
understand what you are doing" type questions. I want to help her have a
bit more insight to why we love unschooling and why we are doing what we are
doing. Rather than give her a book (which may be more than she has time for
right now) I thought that I would make up a list of a few unschooling web
pages and articles that she could read a bit at a time and see various
aspects and viewpoints. I also would like to point her to some direct pages
from Sandra Dodd's website. So, here is where you all come in. Send me
(either on the list or privately, doesn't matter) the url's to specific
articles that you have found helpful in explaining unschooling and that gave
you a deeper understanding of how this really works. I've got a few in
mind, but would like to give her about a dozen or so specific articles that
from there she could branch out. I think she has finally gotten it into her
head that nothing she offers (such as paid tuition at a private school) or
suggests (such as the really cool art program at such-n-such magnet school)
will sway me from doing what I am doing. So now she wants to understand it
better.

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Michelle
aka Melbrigða
http://eventualknitting.blogspot.com
[email protected] - Homeschooling for the Medieval Recreationist


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